"She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good."

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Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

Gilbert Parker

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“Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.”

Source : Howard Cosell (1974). “Like it is”
“Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.”
“When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.”
“Fathers and mothers,â€ she found herself saying, â€œleave their mark, no matter if weâ€™ve known them a lifetime or only a day.”
“My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.”
“If everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world. If there is such a thing as original sin, it's the human capacity to get everything wrong, right from the beginning and all the way up to now, and that's what the old storytellers have been telling us, including the Creek Indians who told this story along with every other tribe on earth.”
“The Libertarian position on immigration is to have, not open borders with no restrictions, but to have controlled borders that allow hard-working people to come into America to help raise their standard of living and improve the American economy.”
“I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking,”

Source : "Castro: Pope Francis so impressive I might return to church". www.washingtonpost.com. May 10, 2015.

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